Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought - MIT Technology Review
With nothing but a smartphone and some clever computation, researchers can exploit ambient signals to track individuals in their own homes.
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Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46065796
Facebook said its security had not been compromised.
And the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions.
Eurostar resets customer passwords after hack attack - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46048597
Eurostar has reset its customers’ login passwords after detecting attempts to break into an unspecified number of accounts.
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacking-usa-cyber-command.html
targeting individual Russian operatives […], telling them that American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work
Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/genome-hackers-show-no-ones-dna-is-anonymous-anymore/
60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they’ve submitted their own DNA data or not
The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg’s Chinese Microchip Stories - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack
No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
Russia Targeted Investigators Trying to Expose Its Misdeeds, Western Allies Say - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/russia-hacks-doping-poisoning.html
the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014
Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/facebook-hack-other-sites.html
Companies that allow customers to log in with Facebook Connect are scrambling to figure out whether their own user accounts have been compromised.
The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook – WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-security-breach-third-party-sites/
If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook.
How to hack an election—and what states should do to prevent fake votes - MIT Technology Review
We need paper verifiable ballots, no internet voting, and we need to ensure we can audit ballots properly.